Dampening Earnings Outlook Signals US Corporate Recession?

A recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. You may be, of course, familiar with the idea of an...

Bitcoin Daily: Ripple Mulls XRP Recruiting Bonuses; Facebook Hires Talent From Blockchain Startups

Ripple reportedly offered bonuses via its digital currency during its recruiting process, according to CoinDesk. One unnamed source was said to have...

Facebook Buys Chainspace Team For Blockchain Push

Facebook is making a big push into blockchain technology with some new hires, according to reports. The company recently hired four people...

Neiman Marcus Names Two Execs As It Builds Luxury Platform

Neiman Marcus Group announced Tuesday (Feb. 5) the appointment of two executives to lead its customer and store strategies. In a press release,...

SMBs Reign In Spending, Hiring

Coming off a strong 2018, small business owners are becoming more conservative in terms of how many investments they make and how...

Report: Corporate AI Usage Balloons 270 Pct In Four-Year Span

A new report has revealed that the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in companies grew 270 percent in the past four years....

Banco Santander Pulls Plug On New CEO

Banco Santander announced this week that plans to hire a new chief executive officer have been cancelled. The financial institution issued a...

Amazon HQ2 Posts First Jobs

Amazon posted two job openings mentioning its HQ2 office in New York City. Both positions — posted within the last few days — are for...

Why Last-Mile Logistics Needs Last-Mile Authentication

For consumers, working with various institutions — such as banks, government agencies and medical systems — often means remembering just as many account passwords for...

Visa Taps Square’s Mary Kay Bowman To Lead Seller Solutions

To head up Visa’s strategy for acceptance products and solutions, Mary Kay Bowman is coming to the firm as its new head...

Small Businesses At The Center Of Bots Vs Accountants

Behind many shifting trends in small business (SMB) financial services — the rise of FinTech service providers, the emergence of artificial intelligence...

SMBs Cautious In Volatile US Economy

An unstable stock market has led many small businesses (SMBs) to cut costs and change their hiring plans for the New Year....

Square Talks Temp Payroll

The holiday season always brings with it a major crush of hiring for temporary employees — and the year 2018 was widely...

Facebook Eyes Engineers, Researchers For Blockchain Team

Social media giant Facebook is looking to grow its blockchain team, according to a report. The company posted on its careers page...

Talent Crunch Intensifies For Small Businesses, Bank Of America Finds

The year 2018 was a record year for small business (SMB) optimism in the U.S., driven by economic strength, government policy and continued...

Airbnb Hires Veteran Amazon Executive As CFO

Airbnb, preparing for an expected initial public offering next year, announced Monday (Nov. 26) that Amazon executive Dave Stephenson is coming onboard...

Bitcoin Daily: Brussel’s NXMH Acquires Bitstamp Exchange; Ripple Hires Ex-Google Product Specialist

MediXserve is working with the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines in an effort to make the first blockchain research and...

The Retail Holiday Hiring Headache

By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. Unemployment is down and consumer confidence...

CBIZ Reports Fall In SMB Hiring For September

New data from CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI) reported a month-over-month decrease in hiring of 2.45 percent in September, which follows...

How US Retailers Are Attracting Seasonal Workers Ahead Of The Holidays

Retailers are looking for hundreds of thousands of retail workers ahead of what is expected to be a busy holiday season: Target,...

Retail Pulse: Rent The Runway Opens San Francisco Store; Crate & Barrel Plans Restaurant

To break into the brick-and-mortar world, some digitally native retailers have opened shops inside department stores. However, they are also turning to...

ADP Stats Show Unemployment Squeezing Entrepreneurs

U.S. businesses are optimistic, but that doesn’t mean entrepreneurs aren’t facing increasingly challenging hurdles. The latest data from ADP and other analysts...

New Netflix Hire Signals Contextual Commerce Focus

Imagine this: You are watching a movie or TV show at home —it’s been a long week and you are vegging out,...

JPMorgan Poaches Google Exec For AI Innovation

JPMorgan Chase has hired a senior executive from Google as its new head of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning services. According...

Streamlining Hiring With Gig Workers In Mind

A tight labor market, difficult job application processes and greater shifts in professional values are all contributing to greater appeal of the...

IT Teams Struggle To Make Right Tech Hires

Automation, bots, blockchain — the deluge of technologies flooding the enterprise today can be overwhelming. This week’s B2B Data Digest takes the...

Economists Upbeat On Jobs, Wages — But Not Because Of Tax Reform

A new survey from the National Association for Business Economists suggests economists are optimistic about U.S. wages and employment, though not yet...

Dunkin’ Brands Appoints New CEO

Taking over from a chief executive who spent almost 10 years at the helm of Dunkin’ Brands, David Hoffmann now has the...

Ripple Brings On Facebook’s Kahina Van Dyke To Ink Partnerships

Ripple, the blockchain company, announced on Wednesday (July 11) that it has tapped Kahina Van Dyke to join the company’s leadership team...

Amid Economic Vigor, Small Firms Struggle To Find Talent

The latest jobs report by the U.S. Department of Labor signaled a healthy employment environment for June as 213,000 positions were added...

For Some Banks, FinTech Spawns Staffing Spree, Others Cut Jobs

Barclays US Taps Ex-Capital One Exec To Lead Cards And Payments Business

Barclays announced that it has appointed Shane Holdaway as the company’s CEO of its cards and payments division in the U.S. Holdaway,...

Lowe’s, PetSmart And Others Take On New Leadership

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. That doesn’t fly in today’s...

Wells Fargo Head Of Innovation Group To Retire

Wells Fargo announced on Tuesday (May 22) that Steve Ellis, head of the innovation group, will retire after nearly 31 years with the...

You Could Do Worse Than Quit A Warehouse Job At Amazon

Amazon puts significant effort toward loyalty, as shown recently by its push to extend Prime discounts to Whole Foods shoppers, a move...

Small Business Earnings, Optimism Hit Yet Another High

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a small business lobbying group, released a report last week revealing historic highs for small...

Amazon Says UK SMBs Feeling The Benefits Of Tech

Amazon U.K. released its latest survey of small business (SMB) sentiment in the country, finding an increase in confidence the company attributes...

Wayfair Books 48 Percent Revenue Gain As It Seeks To Improve Shipping

Wayfair aims to use investments in warehouses, shipping and hiring to boost earnings, company executives said on Wednesday (May 2) when announcing...

Big Names Embark On Spring Hiring Sprees

Standing one’s ground in an Amazon-dominated retail market doesn’t happen by accident. Home Depot is one of the few who have managed...

Small Businesses, Employees At Odds Over AI Expectations

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to permeate consumers’ lives, so naturally, small businesses (SMBs) are following suit. For entrepreneurs and small business employers,...

First SMB Job Growth Of The Year Recorded In March

The latest CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI) indicates an improvement in hiring activity among U.S. small businesses (SMBs). The company announced...

Tilr CEO: Why Algorithms Make The Best Recruiters

The art and science of using the internet as a tool to recruit employees hasn’t just fundamentally changed once in the last...

Apple Picking Up Pace Of Hiring For Siri

Apple, the iPhone maker, is reportedly gearing up to nearly double the number of jobs associated with Siri, its voice-activated personal assistant,...

Solving The Trust Factor For Resumes…With Blockchain

In hiring, here’s the eternal conundrum…how to make sure someone has the experience under their belt that they claim. Blockchain and smart...

Nuance Names New CEO

Nuance Communications announced that is has appointed Mark Benjamin as its new chief executive officer. Nuance provides conversational artificial intelligence innovations for...

Americans Want Small Businesses To Boost Wages With Tax Cuts

A new survey from CNBC and SurveyMonkey finds small businesses (SMBs) across the U.S. aren’t going to give their workers raises despite...

LendingPoint Brings In Former Citi Director As CFO

LendingPoint, online lender and provider of the LoanHero point of sale financing platform, announced the appointment of a Citibank executive as its...

SMBs Start The Year With Jobs, Late Payments, FX Struggles

Jobs numbers were off to a rocky start for the year when new data from the U.S. Department of Labor revealed lower-than-expected...

Gig Workforce Swells As Companies Shed Headcount

Long gone are the days when Ford, J.C. Penney and General Electric were the largest U.S. employers. A new analysis shows that...

Coinbase Names New President

Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange operator, announced late last week that it has appointed Asiff Hirji as its president and chief operating officer....